If you are more focused on blogging and writing content than dealing with coding and affiliate links, this solution may be of interest. <a href="http://triggit.com/">Trigget</a> provides a super fast easy way to drop affiliate links, videos and ads into blog posts.
"Using the tool you can create a link to Amazon - with your associate ID. Just highlight the word you want to turn into a link and click the save button. That will automatically turn whatever you highlight into a link for that product."
Here's a quick video ShoeMoney made showing how easy it is.
<center><a href="http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/01/17/triggit-the-bloggers-new-best-friend/">Triggit - The Bloggers New Best Friend</a>
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SEObook has some good ideas about using Triggit to monetize existing content. "If you use analytics to track your stats and notice that you start ranking for some good keywords you can use Triggit to embed links to merchant products directly in the text of your blog post. More details: <a href="http://www.seobook.com/triggit-easy-way-monetize-accidental-rankings">Triggit - the Easy Way to Monetize Accidental Rankings.</a>
ClickZ article: <a href="http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628161">New Web App Could Expose Untapped Niche Ad Market</a>
Right now it appears to mainly work with Amazon and CJ affiliate links as well as Shopping.com and a couple wine programs. It's in Beta - by invite only.
"Using the tool you can create a link to Amazon - with your associate ID. Just highlight the word you want to turn into a link and click the save button. That will automatically turn whatever you highlight into a link for that product."
Here's a quick video ShoeMoney made showing how easy it is.
<center><a href="http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/01/17/triggit-the-bloggers-new-best-friend/">Triggit - The Bloggers New Best Friend</a>
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SEObook has some good ideas about using Triggit to monetize existing content. "If you use analytics to track your stats and notice that you start ranking for some good keywords you can use Triggit to embed links to merchant products directly in the text of your blog post. More details: <a href="http://www.seobook.com/triggit-easy-way-monetize-accidental-rankings">Triggit - the Easy Way to Monetize Accidental Rankings.</a>
ClickZ article: <a href="http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628161">New Web App Could Expose Untapped Niche Ad Market</a>
Right now it appears to mainly work with Amazon and CJ affiliate links as well as Shopping.com and a couple wine programs. It's in Beta - by invite only.
